I'm really happy to be here with you today. I love this. I just love making these shows with you and for you. And now today on the show, one of my favorite

favorite novelists of all time. Same for many of you, you know, on our AFD week and review emails on Fridays that we send. We told y'all that Karen Kingsbury would be on today and we got so many people. We say, send us questions back and everybody was like, I don't have a question. I just love Karen Kingsbury. Or I don't have a question, I just love her books and her characters and the backstarts and I love Karen too. I've gotten to know her a little bit over the last few years as we all live here. And I've got to know her a little bit. I've got to know her a little bit. I love her a little bit. I love her a little bit. I love her a little bit. I love her a little bit.

I mean, one of the very most encouraging people here in the country has bacterial carbs and AstraZeneca. I've gotten to know her a little bit.

She's a police work, her own personal experience with policemen as a mom and kind of some thoughts around police work in 2020. So it may be one of those times that before you and your kids all listen together, hi, many BFFs, that you may be want to listen first and whether you agree or disagree, you may just want to have that information in your head before your kids listen along so that you can have the conversation you want to have after you listen. So here's my conversation with novelist number one, New York Times.

I'm the best selling author and my friend Karen Kingsbury.

Thank you so much for making time to do this today. Oh, this is so fun. I'm so glad to join you today, Annie. Thank you for dealing with this as we figured out. I also am quarantined at home again for a couple of days. And so I haven't recorded on my home studio in a while. So that could be on me as well. Are you are you talking at all about being sick? Have you were you sick before?

Yeah, I actually am just recovered from COVID. So I did. I did a lot of life about it. And I'm happy to talk about it. Yes. So tell me how it was. What was surprising about it? What was I mean, was it scary? What were your feelings? Yeah. Well, you know, I didn't have I never thought I would get it because we've been doing a really good job with all the kind of vitamin protocol and taking, you know, we take 10,000 I use of the vitamin D, which, you know, you should we ever one should at least be taking 5,000. And I'm not a doctor. But that is the truth.

So we've been doing all that. And I really thought, you know, we wouldn't we wouldn't get it. I went to San Antonio for a women of joy event and on the plane on the way there. They didn't do any temperature checks, which didn't

scarlet me or anything. I really wasn't afraid of it. But there was a guy on the plane coughing so hard. I've never seen anyone cough like this. And he coughed the whole entire flight. And he was too

seats in front of me on the same like window side. And I have to think that's what happened is I just, you know, I'd have my mask drink water or whatever. And I would just

was breathing in his coughing, apparently. And so anyway, just like five days later, I was finishing up some video shoot.

I've been good that day for my virtual conference coming up. And I was certain people like left the house in the day was over

four o'clock and I went, oh my goodness, I'm so tired. What is wrong with me? I was like, never get tired in the middle of the day. And I kind of

put my head down on the table. We were debriefing me and my sister were sitting there chatting. And all of a sudden, I got up and laid down on the couch. And she was like, I guess that's my

sign to leave tired. I never even occurred to me that can make go be been the next day or two. I got just super achy. I couldn't stay awake. Annie, I mean, I was like, so I was so tired.

And then on the third day, we had someone's going on with my book release that I thought I'm going to get tested. So I don't expose anyone just in case

and sure enough, positive. Gosh, I mean, that sounds like it came on so quickly. Yeah. And that's the thing, you know, sometimes we in the past like six months, we've had people coming and going from our house. And we kind of

have been sort of a, I don't know, a rec center in some ways for the young people coming over. I mean, I'm like, okay, I meet them at the door with a bottle of vitamin D. I'm like, I can, I'm on vitamin D. You

have to take vitamin D. But we've all been really just fine. And one time there was a girl who did come down with it. And she had been at the house not feeling well. And I was kind of like, hey, you know, no, to

self, you're, you know, we're in a pandemic. So don't come over. Like that's not even like don't do that. We all didn't get it from her. But then on this particular situation, like I can tell you, I

had a full work day. It's four o'clock in the afternoon. And it hit me literally like a truck like out of nowhere. Suddenly, I'm like putting my head down on the table.

Like just like, oh, it was like a switch. Like, you know, someone just flipped a switch. And now I was sick. And my sister, who had been sitting with me at the table, she got it. Now

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